Setup switches for Windows 95 & 98. Most of these are
"official" setup switches, but Microsoft doesn't want you to know about some of
them!Warning: Use of these setup switches
is not recommended for most normal installations, and should only be done by computer
professionals. Intra-Designs takes no responsibility for any problems that may occur when
using these switches.

The following setup switches will work with both Windows
95 and Windows 98. These must be run from the command line. A sample Setup switch would
look like:

setup /id /P f

/?

A list of the official Setup switches.

/c

Instructs setup not to load the SmartDrive
disk cache.

/d

Setup will not use your existing Windows
configuration.

/id

Skips the disk-space check.

/ig

Allows Setup to run on some older Gateway
and Micron computers with an early BIOS.

/ih

Runs ScanDisk in the foreground.

/im

Skips the memory check.

/in

Runs Setup without the Network Setup module.

/iq

Does not check for cross-linked files.

/ir

Tells Windows Setup not to attempt to write
to the boot sector. This should only be used when the anti-virus protection in CMOS cannot
be disabled. Your computer will not reboot at the end of setup. You must boot using the
Startup disk, SYS your hard drive, then boot normally to allow Setup to finish.

/is

Does not run ScanDisk.

/it

Setup will not check for the presence of
"dirty" or "deadly" terminate-and-stay-resident programs (TSR's) that
are known to cause problems with Windows Setup.

/l (L)

Loads the Logitech mouse driver. Useful for
Logictech series C mouse.

/n

Run Setup without a mouse.

/nm

Bypass the internal processor detection to
allow Win95/98 to install on machines that do not have the minimum hardware requirements.

/p switches

These switches can be used alone, or in
groups. For example, you could type: setup /p f or you could type setup /p f;t:temp;a. Use
the semi-colon (;) between switches

/p a

Setup uses only Safe Detection of hardware.
All hardware devices may not be detected properly.

/p b

Prompts you before a detection module is
called so you can step through detection modules manually.

/P f

Creates a new Registry and ignores the
current Registry. Note the space between the P and f.

/p g={N}

Controls how verbose the built-in progess
bar is. At maximum level (3), it sows all the resources of the detected devices along with
the progress bar.

/p i

Tells Setup not to report the existence of a
Plug and Play BIOS. Useful on systems that have a PNP BIOS that is not reported in
Machine.inf.

/p j

Tells Setup to undo the results of the
"Setup /p i" switch.

/p n

Enables No Recovery mode. This switch turns
off the Windows Setup recovery machanism. It prevents the creating of Detcrash.log, and
the "Safe Recovery" will not show up after a hardware crash during Setup.